Offset side supported tool holder



Feb. 18, 1936; o, EVERSON 2,031,334

OFFSET SIDE SUPPORTED TOOL HOLDER Filed Sept. 12, 1934 INVENTOR. ULE. 'SEVEPSDN an a Is 193s f 2,031,334

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE .QFFSET SIDE SUPPORTED TOOL HOLDER Ole Severson, Shelton; Conn, auignor to The Apex Tool is Cutter Company- Inc., a corporation of Connecticut ipplication September It, 1934, Serial No. 743.629

, 1 lclaim. (CI. 29-99) It is among the prime objects of the present 7 head are both substantially rectangular in shape, invention to provide a tooleliolder which, through the head being stepped and juxtaposed with recooperation with its tool head, will act to hold spect to the shank. a tool bit with an improved rigidity ensuring This arrangement permits the holder shank to minimum vibration, or chatter, between the holder be wholly received within the recesses It so that and its supporting head. the tool holder head has a side support bearing Another object is to flrovide a, tool holder against the face of the tool head whereby overwhich will have a side Lsupport and bearing hand is minimized and an added rigidity of the against the tool head in addition to the usual tool head to the holder union is provided.

support and bearings of such devices. g In that form of the-invention, the structure 10 Another object is to provide a tool holder holding the bit I in the holder body includes a which will minimize the over-hang of the tool holder platform I l operated from adraw-bolt It. with respect to its tool head. This construction being in accordance with my -Other objects include the provision of a tool co-pending application, Serial No. 737,701, en-

holder which carrles'out the foregoing advantitled Draw-bolt, tool holder and bit, flledJuly' 15 tages in a novel, simple device particularly de- 31, 1934. However, it will be distinctly undersigned to meet the demandsof economic manustood that this particular bit holding construcfacture. tion forms no part of the present invention. The

Numerous other objects and advantages of the invention relates to the double directional off-set invention will be apparent from a consideration of the holder head with respect to the holder of the present invention taken in connection with shank so that the head will protrude beyond the the accompanying drawing in which: shank to bear against the outer face of the tool Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of head. Obviously any preferred type of bit holdthe invention assembled with its tool head. ing construction may be provided without depart- Figure 2 is a front elevation of the holder ing from the spirit or scope of the invention as with its tool bit; and outlined in the pending. claim. 1

Figure 3 is a side view of the holder and bit. Having set forth the nature of my invention,

Referring to Figure, lot the drawing, a tool what I claim is:

head of conventional form 'is illustrated, includ- A tool holder comprising an elongated rectan- 0 a shank W a d l h a b dy w h gular shank adapted to be received within a tool so is provided with angularly walled tool holder post and-having an integrally formed head of a receiving recesses I 2, together with locking screws "rectangular--.cross section extending from thewhi h re d pt d to c re s ool holder front face ofjthe shank and being offset forshank within the recesses. wardly and to one side with respect to said shank The tool holder of the present invention inso as to extend beyond the front face and one cludes a shank it adapted to flt within the reside wallofsaid shank, the top of said head being cesses l2 and to be secured therein by the screws spaced downwardly from the top of said shank, ll. As distinct from the conventional holder, in said head being offset from said shank providing which the bit is secured in axial alignment with said h ad with r a n parallel t and 0p- 40 the shank, the present h l e has an oil-set tool positely facing the plane of said front face thus 40 h l er ad w y reference to Figures 2 to form a surface adapted to abut the front face and 3, will be seen to be oif-set in two direcof a tool post within which said shank issecured, tions from the shank I 4. Thus, with the shank the side wall of said shank being adapted to abut M Positioned Within h h I. h a k f ce a face of the aforementioned tool post, said head 46 of the tool holder head will bear against the further having means for receiving and retaining outer face of the tool headbody. The construca t bu, tion is such that the shank and the tool holder OLE SEVERSON. 

